How to make burnt sugar: a recipe with a video
For many, burnt sugar is associated only with cooking, while its beneficial properties are much more multifaceted. With this sugar, you can relieve coughs.
How to make burnt sugar: recipe
Burnt sugar is a caramelized alternative to the usual sugar and is most often used to decorate ready-made meals or give them a different flavor. There are a variety of recipes for how to use burnt sugar, from making baby lozenges to making alcoholic cocktails, but it is much more indispensable for treating coughs.
Burnt sugar relieves the condition with a wet cough, helping to discharge phlegm, but it is not suitable for everyone precisely because of its sweetness, as it can cause even more severe sore throat. The substance obtained by melting sugar is recommended by traditional medicine to be consumed in small pieces 3-4 times a day with coughing fits, washed down with water.
In childhood, it will be correct to offer children not only lollipops made of burnt sugar, but also water in which it is dissolved. The effect of the latter should be similar. Burnt sugar treatment should bring relief as early as the third day after you start taking it.
Before consuming sugar, you should consult your doctor, as this remedy is not universal and may not only be useless, but also provoke an exacerbation of the disease.
There are two ways to prepare burnt cough sugar:
- in a saucepan or skillet
- in a teaspoon
In the first method, you need to put a tablespoon of sugar in the center of a saucepan or pan, and then put the container on low heat. The sugar will begin to melt, change color and thicken, while the taste is different at each stage of sugar melting. During the melting process, the sugar must be stirred, evenly spreading over the entire area of the bottom of the dish. It is important not to overdo the sugar, otherwise it will turn black and bitter. While hot, it must be poured into water or laid out on foil and wait for complete caramelization.
The resulting layer can be easily broken into pieces of candy by hand
The second method is more economical, since it is enough for it to grease a regular tablespoon with butter, pour sugar into it and hold it over a gas burner until sugar is ready, then pour it into a glass of water. The only drawback of such an event is that the bottom of the spoon can become smoky. When using butter, sugar is made into real caramel.